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NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It was signed by the US, Canada, and many western European countries. Its an alliance that was created against russia -
West Berlin was in East Germany, and the Soviet Union cut off external supplies from the City, as they wanted it under their control. They were running out of food, so the US flew over 2.3 million tons of supplies (Coal and Food) to West Berlin. The USSR eventually ended the blockade. -
Korea had belonged to Japan during WW2, but afterwards, the North became communist under the control of the USSR, and the south was a democracy controlled by the US. N. Korea started to invade S.Korea, and the UN stepped in to protect them, and the goals transformed to free N.Korea from Communism. The U.S offered Concessions and dropped out.
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The Warsaw pact was signed by the USSR, Albania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and the German Democratic Republic. The Countries all became Allies, as a counter Pact against NATO. The USSR mostly controlled the Warsaw pact. -
North Vietnam was Communist supported by the USSR and China, and South Vietnam was Democratic supported by the U.S. The French had previously been in the war but pulled out. The USSR and US were on opposing sides, but did not directly fight. It was a fight by the North to take communist control of the South.
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Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite that had been launched into space successfully. It was part of the space race (for better space tech.) The launch made people fear that the United States was falling behind in War technologically compared to the USSR in the Cold War. -
France, the U.S and the UK are democratic, and made their territory into West Germany but the USSR was communist and formed East Germany. The USSR constructed the Berlin Wall to keep people from fleeing to the West. It was built to keep people in, as people kept leaving because they didn't want to live in a communist nation. -
The U.S. had installed Nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey inrange of Moscow, so the USSR worked with Cuba and put Nuclear Technology that could hit anywhere in the U.S. The U.S panicked and then put a blockade on Cuba. It ended when the USSR and US had secret Negotiations after Public tensions and threats. -
The USSR and the US were in a race to get to the moon first. The US got to the moon first, although the USSR was the first to get a person in space. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first humans to touch the moon It was a show of technology in the Cold war. -
President Reagan asked the leader of the Soviet Union to “Tear down this wall” and around 2 years later it was torn down as the Soviet Union was collapsing. The travel between them became free.